The Commission is authorized to issue such rules, regulations, or orders requiring reports of ownership, possession, extraction, refining, shipment, or other handling of source material as it may deem necessary, except that such reports shall not be required with respect to (a) any source material prior to removal from its place of deposit in nature, or (b) quantities of source material which in the opinion of the Commission are unimportant or the reporting of which will discourage independent prospecting for new deposits.
Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 168 Stat. 933Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8)106 Stat. 2944(, title I, § 65, as added , ; renumbered title I, , , .)
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Prior Provisions
section 1805(b)(4) of this titleProvisions similar to this section were contained in , prior to the general amendment and renumbering of act , by act .